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Employee Learning Lead

Japan, Tokyo-to, Tokyo🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-10 → 2026-07-31

Core

Drive consumption of existing learning and deliver skilling support for field sales teams, managers, and leaders to align with business priorities and global aspirations.

Role type

Senior Employee Learning Lead (Sales Enablement)

Builds

Localized learning initiatives, workshops, and AI-driven personalized learning programs for field sales teams.

Domain

IT/Technology industry sales enablement and corporate learning.

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Strategic planning, project leadership, change management, cross-boundary collaboration, quota carrying sales experience, technical sales knowledge, conflict management, independent work in remote environments.

Preferred skills

Management experience, learning and capability development experience, industry/technical skills knowledge.

Technologies

AI-driven learning platforms, gamification tools (badging).

Responsibilities

Tailor learning events for managers and leaders, implement Area Skilling Plans, land priority workshops, foster a culture of impactful skilling, ensure alignment with operating units, create and share pilot programs, collaborate with the GELL organization.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with strategic planning capabilities.

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## About the role * Drive consumption of existing learning and deliver what is needed to support skilling. * Tailor learning events for managers and leaders to model, coach, care and drive learning plans. * Implement Area Skilling Plans in partnership with Area leadership team, Area Learning Lead and Sales Enablement & Operations (SE&O) teams prioritizing the local learning needs aligned to the business priorities supporting both global and regional aspirations. * Land priority workshops (whether regionally or Corp driven) to drive revenue. * Foster a culture where the Field is empowered to drive impactful skilling initiatives that are aligned to the local learning needs & are recognized for their efforts, also utilizing a localized gamification process (i.e. badging) if/as needed. * Ensure alignment with operating units (CSA/CSU/STU & ATU) alongside the corp sales skilling org and SE&O to ensure clarity of needs and landing with our field sales teams. * Leverage an AI-driven platform focused on personalized, gamified, and AI-supported learning for sellers to orchestrate local learning initiatives. * Strong partnership with local leadership team, stakeholders, enablement teams & decision makers in the form of Executive Learning Council (standalone or combined with Customer Engage managers and leaders as learning role models, walking the talk & promoting learning culture in areas & in 1:1 with teams. * Create, collaborate and share. * Ensure engagement of ELLs across all Corp Pilot/Program creation, enabling ongoing feedback loop to empower and support the field (e.g. what and how to land, aligned to learning needs and challenges including local language availability). * Leverages the work of others within the GELL organization to align on learning days and content. * Inspire, inspire, inspire. ## Requirements * 5 -10 years broad business experience and project lead in international corporate sales, marketing, or services environment, ideally within the IT or a related industry. * Learning and capability development experience desirable; management experience is a plus. * Deep Field experience alongside and understanding of factors that motivate and drive results within technical, sales and marketing organizations, including quota carrying sales experience and /or channel or technical community development. * Experience with industry, technical, and/or professional skills knowledge and sales capabilities is desired. * Excellent communications skills, including in dealing with senior leaders; strong organizational agility in an enterprise environment and proven cross boundary collaboration capabilities, including v-team coordination. * Experience in change management and leading complex, organization-wide programs and projects. * Strategic & structured to develop a solid plan. * Demonstrated problem solving ability with an ability to manage through ambiguity and positively manage conflict to drive positive business results. * Ability to work independently and effectively as part of a remote team, driving successful outcomes with virtual teams. * Education: Bachelor's Degree required with Master's Degree preferred. * English and Japanese language fluency.
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